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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS: 
THE BEST JUVENILE ^XgLajZIIN'E IN THE COUNTiIy. 
What it Has Been. 
0»n Young Folks lias, from the appearance of the first 
Humber in January, 1865, maintained the highest rank among 
the Juvenile Magazines of the world. It has blended in¬ 
struction and entertainment so as to make it a welcome 
visitor in many thousands of American homes, gladdening 
the young, and affording most efficient aid to parents in the 
instruction and healthy diversion of their children. Prom¬ 
inent Educators, distinguished Clergymen of all denomi¬ 
nations, and the Press generally, have commended it in the 
highest terms. It is filled with attractive Stories, Sketches, 
and Poems, by writers whose names are a passport to the 
affections of all youthful readers; and it is profusely illus¬ 
trated by the best American Artists. Full page Illustrations 
are given in every number. An ample Department of Even¬ 
ing Entertainment and Correspondence makes Our. Young 
Folks a Household Delight. 
The rich and attractive character of its literary contents 
is shown in the following partial statement of the writers 
and subjects represented in the four volumes already issued. 
CONTINUED STORIES, by Charles Dickens, 
Maynk Reid, “Oliver Optic,” J. T. Trowbridge, 
“CarlEton,” Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Dr. I. I. Hayes, 
Elijah Kellogo, “ George Eager.” 
SHORT STORIES AND BIOGRAPHIC AT, 
SKETCHES, by Mrs. H. B. Stowe, Mrs. L. Maria 
Child. Miss Mulock, Gail Hamilton, T. W.Higginson, 
Bayard Taylor, Author of “Angel Children,” Aunt 
Fanny, Mrs. A. M. Diaz, Mary N. Prescott, J. G. 
Whittier, Mrs. J. G. Austin, Helen C. Weeks, E. 
Stuart Phelps. 
POEMS, by H. W. Longfellow, J. G. Whittier, .1. It. 
Lowell, T. B. Aldrich, Lucy Larcom, Rose Terry, 
R. H. Stoddard, Kate Putnam Osgood, Mrs. Anna M. 
Wells, Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. 
HISTORIC \L, SCIENTIFIC AND OUT-DOOR 
PAPERS, by Lucretia P. Hale, J. H. A. Bone, 
Charles J. Foster, C. D.Shanly, the Author of “Seven 
Little Sisters,” the Author of “ Ten Acres Enough.” 
What is said of it. 
Its contents include an attractive variety of contributions 
from experienced writers, who have already won distinction 
in other departments of literary labor, and who here show a 
happy faculty of catering to the tastes of youthful readers." 
—N. Y. Tribune. 
“ It is certainly the best magazine for young people now 
published in any land or language.”— Philadelphia Dress. 
‘ We wish that we were young again, that we might have 
the full enjoyment of this charming periodical.”— Genesee 
Farmer. 
“No periodical for juvenile readers has been published 
within my knowledge, in this country or abroad, of nearly 
equal excellence for intellectual vigor and freshness, for 
variety and tact, for originality and good sense.”—Rev. F. 
D. Huntington, D. D., Pastor Emmanuel (.Episcopal) 
Church, Poston. 
“ The children of my neighborhood express peculiar satis¬ 
faction in finding themselves treated in ‘Our Young Folks' 
as reasonable beings, and addressed as such by the first 
masters of knowledge, wisdom, imagination and style.”— 
Rev. H. AV. Bellows, D. Y>., Pastor All Souls' (Unitarian) 
Church , New York. 
“I have taken ‘Our Young Folks’ from the first issue. It 
is admirably adapted, in every respect, to Its purpose.”— 
Rev. D. W. Clark, Bishop Meth. Epis. Church. 
“ The fresiiness, vigor, and variety of its pages will attract 
and charm young folks. Its simplicity and purity ol style 
will refine and elevate their taste ; while its high moral tone 
cannot fail to inspire noble thought and feeling.”— Joseph 
White, Sec. Mass. Board of Education. 
“The whole community have to thank you for producing 
a magazine so well adapted to the class for which it is in¬ 
tended, and so elevating and refining in its influences.”— 
Samuel P. Bates, State Historian, Pa. 
“ ‘ Onr Young Folks,’ tried by the twofold test of interest 
and influence, is unquestionably the best juvenile magazine 
published in tliis country. It hits most happily the golden 
mean between childish insipidity and staid erudition, com¬ 
bining in due proportion the sparkle and vivacity ot youth 
with the wisdom of age.”— E. E. White, Late State Sup't 
of Schools, Ohio. 
WJiat it will have in 1869 
All the features which have made Our Young- Folks so 
popular heretofore will be continued; while a mor q practi¬ 
cal cast will be given to it, by whicli it will lose none of its 
attractive qualities, but be rendered even more instructive 
and useful than it lias been. The following are some of the 
prominent features of the volume for 1S69. 
The principal SERIAL STORY will be contributed 
by Mr. T. B. Aldrich. It is entitled “THE STORY 
OF A KAO BOY,” and it is believed that bov-life will 
be found presented in its pages in a manner at once new and 
delightful. The temptations, trials, errors, failures, and final 
success of boyhood are all touched upon in turn, and the 
story cannot fail to be both interesting and useful. 
James Paktost, the well-known and entertaining writer, 
will contribute a number of sketches of biography and adven¬ 
ture from the lives of some of the most famous Navigators 
and Discoverers. 
A series 6f papers upon Science will he furnished 
by an eminent writer. Jn‘these will be embodied descrip¬ 
tive accounts of many of the singular phenomena of the 
world about us, with the causes which lead to them. 
Mr. J. T. Trowbridge will describe some of the more im¬ 
portant and interesting branches of human history, such as 
Glass-making, Ship-building, Watch-making, &c. 
.Declamations, specially written for “Our Young 
Folks,” are to be contributed to several numbers by Rkv. 
Elijah Kellogg, Author of “ Spartacus " and “ Icilius." 
The first of these, Hannibal at the Altar," will appear 
early in the year. 
Mr. Epes Sargent will contribute a number of entirely 
new DIALOGUES,'adapted to School Exhibitions and 
private theatricals. 
Stories, Poems, and occasional articles upon Science , 
Travel , Biography, and Manufactures, will find a place in 
“Our Young Folks,” and, with the large corps of Con¬ 
tributors who are already so well known to the readers of 
the Magazine, will be enlisted all such other writers as have 
something of the very best to tell. 
THE CHILDREN’S OWN DEPARTMENTS, 
—“ Pound the Evening Lamp,'' and “ Our Letter Box,"— 
will still be important sections of each monthly issue. 
The above are only a few of the features which the Pub¬ 
lishers of “ Our Young Folks ” will oiler to its readers for 
the coming year. They are fully sensible of the great inter¬ 
est everywhere felt iii .juvenile literature by parents and 
educators, and it will be their constant endeavor to make 
“Our Young Folks” a means of instruction as well as 
entertainment. 
TERMS OF OUR YOUNG FOLKS s— Single or Specimen number, 20 cents; Yearly subscription, $2.00 in advance; Three copies, $.”>.00; Five copies, $3.00 ; Ten copies, $15.00 
and $1.50 for each additional copy; Twenty copies, $30.00, and a copy gratis to the person sending the Club, or Twenty-one copies for $30 00. 
TICKNOR AND FIELDS, Publishers, Boston. 
Tlie December and January numbers of the Agriculturist will contain, on this page, additional features and illustrations of Our Young Folks. 
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